Improvement in fruit-driers



s. w. HOPE. FRUIT-DRIER.

Patented Ju1y18. 1876.

N-PETFJIS, PNO'YO-UTHOGRAPNER, WASHINGTON, D C

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

SAMUEL W. HOPE, OF DOVER, DELAWARE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FRUIT-DRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 179,921 dated July 18, 1876 application filed -May 1, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL W. HOPE, of Dover, in the county of Kent and .State of Delaware, have invented a new and Improved Fruit-Drier, of which the following is a specification:

The invention relates to a drying-chamber having two compartments, each provided with an elevator or hoistingapparatus, and cominunicating by means-of an opening in the partition, through which trays of fruit may he slid from one elevator onto the other, and thus passed from the first compartment, in which the moisture is mainly eliminated from the fruit, to the second compartment, where the drying process is perfected. The invention further relates to the construction of the elevators in detachable sections, as hereinafter described.

Figure] is a sectional elevation of my improved drier, and Fig. 2 is a horizontal sec tion taken on line a; x.

A represents the drying-case; B, the tubes for carrying off the moist *airfO, passage through the sides of the drier to the moistair tubes; D, partition separating the drier into two compartments; E, tight cover to the drying-cases; F, frame for supporting the trays G by ropes or chains H; J, cleats on which the trays are supported from the frames, and which are suspended by uprights I, made in short pieces, and hooked to the frames, and also hooked together in sections at K to be detached. Doors L'are provided in the sides, for convenience in putting in and taking out the trays, and the partition D also has suita;

ble opening a, throughwhich the trays are passed from the first compartment into the second. For this purpose it is obviously necessary that the cleats J of one elevator shall be brought into the same plane with those of the other, as shown in Fig. 1. 1

The trays of fruit are first placed in the left-hand compartment, and when the moisture has been mainly eliminated they are slid into the second or right-hand compartment,

by slides or springs,and lower the frame, and

hook it on .the full sections after removing the empty ones, or raise the frame and add more sections,as needed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a fruit-drier, the combination of two compartments, a partition, D, having openings to, and the elevators arranged one in each compartment, substantially as shown and described, to operate as specified.

2. The elevators or hoisting apparatus formed of the sections I J, each connected to the other by a detachable hook-and-eye joint, as shown and described.

' SAMUEL W. HOPE.

Witnesses:

JOHN HAMAN, O. B. HOPE. 

